When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. It is only when she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the cultivated but worthless Gilbert Osmond that she discovers that wealth is a two-edged sword...

4) Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the fall of Madame X

Author

Davis, Deborah

Publisher

Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin Group

Pub. Date

c2003

Physical Desc

310 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Language

English

5) Sargent's daughters: the biography of a painting

Author

Hirshler, Erica E

Publisher

MFA Publications

Pub. Date

c2009

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

x, 262 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 20 cm.

Language

English

6) John Singer Sargent's Triumph of religion at the Boston Public Library: creation and restoration

Author

Sargent, John Singer

Publisher

Distributed by] Yale University Press

Pub. Date

2009

Physical Desc

295 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm.

Language

English

7) Sargent portrait drawings: 42 works by John Singer Sargent

Author

Sargent, John Singer

Series

Dover art library

Publisher

Dover

Pub. Date

1983

Physical Desc

[2] p., 41 p. of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.

Language

English

8) Sargent on location: Gardners's first artist-in-residence

Author

Sargent, John Singer

Series

Close up

Publisher

Paul Holberton Publishing

Pub. Date

[2018]

Physical Desc

63 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Language

English

9) John Singer Sargent: the male nudes

Author

Sargent, John Singer

Publisher

Universe Pub

Pub. Date

1999

Physical Desc

79 p. : ill (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Language

English

10) John Singer Sargent

Author

Ratcliff, Carter

Publisher

Abbeville Press

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 34 cm.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

Description

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Examines the life and career of nineteenth-century American artist John Singer Sargent, looking at his oil portraits, watercolors, and murals, and includes over three hundred illustrations in color and black-and-white.

11) Sargent watercolors

Author

Hoopes, Donelson F

Publisher

Watson-Guptill Publications

Language

English

Description

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Volume two of watercolors by John Sargent.

12) Fashioned by Sargent

Author

Hirshler, Erica E

Publisher

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Pub. Date

[2023]

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm

Language

English

Description

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Fashioned by Sargent explores the complicated relationship of painting and dress through reproductions of portraits and other works by Sargent, alongside costumes of the period - including garments actually worn by his sitters. Essays illuminate topics such as portraits and performance, gender expression, the New Woman, and the pull of history and the excitement of new ideas.

13) Sargent: the masterworks

Author

Herdrich, Stephanie L

Publisher

Rizzoli Electra, a division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc

Pub. Date

2018.

Physical Desc

221 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cm

Language

English

Description

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An introduction to the painter's work, 'Sargent: The Masterworks' features 100 of his most beloved paintings. Illustrating all aspects of his diverse oeuvre portraits, landscapes, mural commissions in oil and watercolour, this handsome new book includes works from both private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art's infamous 'Madame X'. Author Stephanie L. Herdrich draws on a wealth of new research to provide both an essential...